The Provincial Council of Seville aspires to make a skein of the 106 municipalities that make up its province, which is why the thread that allows them to be sewn and brought closer to all was the protagonist of the gala for the presentation of the Medals of the Province, which was held last night at the Andalusian capital. A thread that, as claimed by its president, the socialist Javier Fernández, must guarantee that “people are equal, wherever they live. “That a Sevillian is the same whether he lives in Triana or Los Remedios or in Alanís or Badolatosa.” “Sevillians with the same possibilities and the same HR,” he claimed.
An equality that is nourished by diversity, which was also the thread that tied together those distinguished with the Gold Medals: the journalist and director of Cadena Ser in Andalusia, Antonio Yélamo; the actress Belén Cuesta, the singer José Domínguez Muñoz, The Goatherd, the former president of the Seville Provincial Council, Fernando Rodríguez Villalobos; the members of the Women’s Team that won the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, Olga Carmona and Irene Guerrero; the embroiderer Francisco Cabrera, Paquili, and the former Secretary of State for Social Affairs, Amalia Gómez. Also recognized were entities such as Publicaciones del Sur, in its 35th anniversary, the Spanish Confederation of People with Physical and Organic Disabilities (Cocemfe), the Padre Leonardo Castilo foundation, the Oleand Manzanilla Olive cooperative, the Teatro Atalaya-TNT theater company, and the National Police in Seville.
“We are a province proud of itself. We are open people, who have built a universal Seville, recognized inside and also outside,” said the president of the Provincial Council, later referring to the winners: “You are the mirror in which to look, an example to follow.” “Medals have to be a point of motivation, but they cannot serve as a source of complacency,” he warned.
And along those lines, Fernández also appealed to “nonconformity” as a stimulus for the province. “Let’s be nonconformists, let’s all face the future together from nonconformity. From the demands for Seville to be better.”
The speech of the president of the Seville Provincial Council closed the event. The last end of a ball that its drivers were unraveling with humor and impudence, Cristina Almazan and Álex O’Dogherty, the masters of ceremony of a gala that for the first time was held outside the institution’s headquarters and that was also open to all Sevillians, whom the presenters challenged and also made protagonists.
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